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Tenable®, Inc., the Cyber Exposure company, today announced that it has been recognized as one of The Washington Post’s 2021 Top Workplaces in the Washington, D.C. area based on ratings from employees for the third year in a row. “Our employees are at the center of everything we do. Being recognized as a Top Workplace by The Washington Post is very exciting because it’s based on employee feedback,” said Bridgett Paradise, chief people officer, Tenable….

Close to 100 electronic devices have been lost by Parliamentary staffers in the UK during the last two years, raising fears that sensitive public data has fallen into the hands of malicious actors. The official data obtained by Parliament Street think tank under Freedom of Information (FOI) legislation revealed that a total of 96 laptops, tablet computers and other electronic gadgets were reported missing by Parliamentary staffers in the calendar years of 2019 and 2020. The majority of…

This is part two in a multi-part series introducing a framework for assessing multi-cloud use maturity.  A comprehensive eBook on the framework can be found here.  At the end of the blog, you’ll find a link to all other blogs in the series. Competency area #1:  Cloud adoption paths In assessing the maturity of an organization in this area, the organization should consider how broadly the practices below are being adopted across the entire organization. …

Security experts have warned online shoppers to beware of scam emails and texts over the next couple of days as the Amazon Prime Day e-commerce bonanza gets underway. The 48-hour sales event for Prime subscribers is said to be an even bigger money-maker for Amazon than Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined. However, where there is money and consumers, cyber-criminals are usually not far away, warned Charles Brook, a threat intelligence researcher at Tessian. “The…

Antonio Vázquez sees the potential for problems everywhere. Vázquez, who started in January 2021 as the first CIO at tech company Bizagi, offers a lengthy list of areas where something could go wrong: security, data privacy, compliance, vendor relationships, cost management, employee access to systems, staffing, and IT projects. He’s thinking about whether employees understand and follow the company’s cybersecurity policies and standards; whether his vendors and suppliers will modernize at a pace that meets…

Tens of thousands of patients at a US fertility clinic have had sensitive personal and medical information stolen in a ransomware attack. Reproductive Biology Associates (RBA) was the first organization of its kind to offer IVF in the US state of Georgia and is the founding partner of the nationwide fertility clinic network My Egg Bank. In a new breach notification, RBA claimed to have first become aware of a cyber-incident on April 16 this…

A South Korean nuclear power research organization has admitted it’s currently investigating a security breach after reports suggested its neighbor to the north may be responsible.   Lawmaker Ha Tae-keung, who sits on the parliamentary intelligence committee, cited third-party research attributing the May 14 attack to Pyeongyang-backed APT group Kimsuky. One of 13 IP addresses used to attack the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) was traced back to the group, which has been in…

Confidence isn’t new when it comes to cybersecurity. All the way back in 2015, for example, 86% of security professionals working in the energy sector told Tripwire that they were confident they could detect a breach in a week. Just less than half (49%) said it wouldn’t take them longer than a day to spot an attack. It was the same story a year later when Tripwire surveyed infosec professionals in the retail sector. Most…

In a previous article, we introduced the fact that one of our largest growing populations is that of the “Baby Boomer” generation (those born between 1946 to 1964). As the Boomers get older, they become susceptible to many of the emerging dirty tricks that exist on the Internet. Phone scams, lottery scams, tech support scams, and a host of other frauds have existed for years. The scammers have adapted by finding new ways to become convincing. As…